Marleny García-Lozano
Education
Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Biology | 2020 - Present
Tübingen, Germany
M.S. West Virginia State University | 2020
West Virginia, USA.
B.S. Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila | 2017
Coahuila, México
Fellowships
IMPRS Graduate Research Fellowship | 2020
International Max Planck Research School
Evans Allen Graduate Research Assistantship | 2018
West Virginia State University
Research interests
My research focuses on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of mutualism breakdown in leaf beetles.
Publications
García-Lozano M, Henzler H, Porras M, Pons I, Berasategui A, Lanz C, Budde H, Oguchi K, Matsuura Y, Pauchet Y, Goffredi S, Fukatsu T, Windsor D, Salem H. (2024) Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles. Current Biology, doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.070
Porras M*, Pons I*, García-Lozano M, Jagdale S, Emmerich C, Weiss B, Salem H (2024). Extracellular symbiont colonises insect during embryo development. ISME Communications, doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae005
Berasategui A, Breitenbach N, García-Lozano M, Pons I, Sailer B, Lanz C, Rodriguez V, Hipp K, Ziemert N, Windsor D, Salem H (2022). The leaf beetle Chelymorpha alternans propagates a plant pathogen in exchange for pupal protection. Current Biology, doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.065
Garcia‐Lozano M, Natarajan P, Levi A, Katam R, Lopez‐Ortiz C, Nimmakayala P, Reddy UK (2021). Altered chromatin conformation and transcriptional regulation in watermelon following genome doubling. The Plant Journal, doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15256
Natarajan P, Akinmoju TA, Nimmakayala P, Lopez-Ortiz C, Garcia-Lozano M, Thompson BJ, Stommel J, Reddy UK (2020). Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis to characterize cutin biosynthesis between low- and high-cutin genotypes of Capsicum chinense Jacq. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041397
Garcia-Lozano M, Haynes J, Lopez-Ortiz C, Natarajan P, Peña-Garcia Y, Nimmakayala P, Stommel J, Alaparthi S, Sirbu C, Balagurusamy N, Reddy UK (2020). Effect of pepper-containing diets on the diversity and composition of gut microbiome of Drosophila melanogaster. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, doi.10.3390/ijms21030945
Garcia-Lozano M, Dutta SK, Natarajan P, Tomason YR, Lopez-Ortiz C, Katam R, Levi A, Nimmakayala P, Reddy UK (2019). Transcriptome changes in reciprocal grafts involving watermelon and bottle gourd reveal molecular mechanisms involved in increase of the fruit size, rind toughness and soluble solids. Plant Molecular Biology, doi.10.1007/s11103-019-00942-7
García-Lozano M, Lira-Hernández OI, Huber D, Balagurusamy N (2019). Spatial variations of bacterial communities of an anaerobic lagoon-type biodigester fed with dairy manure. Processes, doi.org/10.3390/pr7070408
Garcia-Lozano M, Pena-García Y, Silva-González JA, Bañuelos-Ochoa CV, Escareño-Luevano MP, Balagurusamy N (2019). Biosensors for food quality and safety monitoring: Fundamentals and applications. In Enzymes in Food Biotechnology. Academic Press, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813280-7.00040-2
Saminathan T, García-Lozano M, Ghimire B, Lopez-Ortiz C, Bodunrin A, Nimmakayala P, Lakshmi VA, Levi A, Balagurusamy N, Reddy UK (2018). Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses of diverse watermelon cultivars reveal the role of fruit associated microbiome in carbohydrate metabolism and ripening of mature fruits. Frontiers in Plant Science, doi.10.3389/fpls.2018.00004
García-Lozano M, Pena-García Y, Avendano-Arellano KA, Lopez-Ortiz CE, Balagurusamy N (2017). Livestock Methane Emission: Microbial ecology and mitigation strategies. In S. Sekkin (Ed.) Livestock Science. Intech Publications, doi.10.5772/65859
Montanez-Hernandez LE, García-Lozano M, Pena-García Y, Oropeza-Navarro R, Balagurusamy N (2017). Microbiology and biochemistry of anaerobic treatment. In D. Lee, V Jegatheesan, H Ngo, P Hallenbeck, A Pandey (Eds.) Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Biological Treatment of Industrial Effluents. Elsevier Publishers, doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63665-2.00009-6
Selected presentations
Talk at the 10th Congress of the International Symbiosis Society: “Symbiosis in the Anthropocene”. Lyon, France (July 2022).
Invited seminar at Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna. “Origin and molecular evolution of a pectinolytic symbiosis in leaf beetles”. Vienna, Austria (Feb 2023).
Poster presentation at the EMBO|EMBL Symposium: “The cellular mechanics of symbiosis”. Heidelberg, Germany (March 2023).
Poster presentation at the SymbNET PhD Summer School 2023. “Origin and molecular evolution of a pectinolytic symbiosis in leaf beetles”. Oeiras, Portugal (July 2023). Prize for Best Poster presentation.
Contact
Max-Planck-Ring 5, Tübingen
72076, Germany
Email: marleny.garcia-lozano@tuebingen.mpg.de